OJ Major Ham Biz Shocker!
Michael Moody
In <brian_jones-19...@169.137.7.17> {brian...@ajc.com} You Claim:
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: Yeah, like this guy knows what a catfish wishes. I seem to recoil hearing
: the "gobbling whole chickens" thing, though... Anyway, gotta run - the
: Olympic Torch is about to arrive...
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I missed it when it came through I was planning a "Tonya Harding" on it!
Brian Jones
From today's Atlanta Journal & Constitution's "Q & A ON THE NEWS" feature:
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Q: My daughter says people in her office read in a New York newspaper that
O.J. Simpson owned 80 percent of the Honey Baked Ham Co. I've never heard
this. Is there any truth to it? Brad Lawson, Gainesville
A: The Honey Baked Ham Co. is family-owned and managed, with 250 retail
stores across the United States. Simpson is a minority (sic) shareholder
in four retail stores in Los Angeles, according to Linda Elliott,
president of The Original Honey Baked Ham Co. of Georgia.
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This seems to be an obvious affirmative-action motivated vectoring of the
popular "KKK Owns Church's/etc." UL. And Brad's FOAF-chain (is there a
term for that?) has to be one of the best I've ever seen.
This column also debunked the "man-size catfish under Buford Dam" UL
earlier this week - viz:
From the Wednesday, July 17th Atlanta Journal & Constitution's "Q & A ON
THE NEWS" feature:
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Q: My wife has been telling me for 31/2 years, since I moved here, that in
the Lake Lanier area there are catfish so huge that divers won't go in to
work on the infrastructure. Is this a myth or truth? How big are the
catfish up there?
Christopher Brecher, Roswell
A: Stories about catfish being as long as a man's height and scaring
divers away from reservoir dams that they were inspecting for cracks are
popular, oft-told urban myths heard around Lake Lanier and also all over
the South and Southwest. One myth about Lake Lanier involved very big
catfish gobbling whole chickens from a truck that supposedly plunged off a
bridge. Catfish, however, do indeed grow big in Georgia lakes and rivers.
Lake Lanier has yielded some catfish weighing in the teens and 20s. A
55-pound, 3-ounce flathead catfish was caught in 1995 in Clarks Hill
reservoir, and this year flathead cats weighing 65 to 70 pounds were
cautght in the Ocmulgee and Altamaha rivers. But these big'uns eat
bluegills and redbreast sunfish as big as your hand, and they don't wish
to frighten or eat people.
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Yeah, like this guy knows what a catfish wishes. I seem to recoil hearing
the "gobbling whole chickens" thing, though... Anyway, gotta run - the
Olympic Torch is about to arrive...
Brian "Will gobble whole chickens, Honey-Baked Hams, and/or catfish for
food" Jones
Andy Walton
In article <brian_jones-19...@169.137.7.17>,
brian...@ajc.com (Brian Jones) wrote:
:A: The Honey Baked Ham Co. is family-owned and managed, with 250 retail
:stores across the United States. Simpson is a minority (sic) shareholder
:in four retail stores in Los Angeles, according to Linda Elliott,
:president of The Original Honey Baked Ham Co. of Georgia.
:
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:This seems to be an obvious affirmative-action motivated vectoring of the
:popular "KKK Owns Church's/etc." UL.
I didn't read affirmative action into that at all -- I read "minority
shareholder" as someone who holds a minority of the shares, not as someone
who belongs to a minority and owns shares.
In other words, Simpson's an investor, and doesn't run the place. A
significant distinction.
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Brian Jones
In article
<atticus-2007...@user-168-121-30-194.dialup.mindspring.com>,
att...@mindspring.com (Andy Walton) wrote:
> In article <brian_jones-19...@169.137.7.17>,
> brian...@ajc.com (Brian Jones) wrote:
>
> :A: The Honey Baked Ham Co. is family-owned and managed, with 250 retail
> :stores across the United States. Simpson is a minority (sic) shareholder
> :in four retail stores in Los Angeles, according to Linda Elliott,
> :president of The Original Honey Baked Ham Co. of Georgia.
> :
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> :
> :This seems to be an obvious affirmative-action motivated vectoring of the
> :popular "KKK Owns Church's/etc." UL.
>
> I didn't read affirmative action into that at all -- I read "minority
> shareholder" as someone who holds a minority of the shares, not as someone
> who belongs to a minority and owns shares.
>
> In other words, Simpson's an investor, and doesn't run the place. A
> significant distinction.
My "(sic)" was an attempt at humorously noting the use of the word
"minority"; I know what a minority investor is. As such, it wasn't at all
related to my (again, allegedly humorous) mention of "affirmative action",
and I'm sorry if I gave that impression. I intended to say that the UL-ish
"OJ owns The Honey Baked Ham Co." seems to be a racially reversed version
of the other UL I mentioned. It's interesting to me that we have here a
black USA'n who's well-known, yet openly & freely reviled enough to be
used in this UL...can you name any other?
For instance, if you said, "I heard the Nation of Islam owns Honey Baked
Ham", you'd be in for some racially-charged discussion (not to mention
wondering a: why they're selling pork and b: where are the bean pies?);
the implicit purpose of vectoring such a story is, you're wondering
whether you should still give them your business.
Brian "...But you know all this." Jones
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